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What is the quickest pivot to FTP out there. This one may become a contender.

How this game isn't FTP already is mind blowing.

 

[rotorfire]

 

[Dusktildawn48]

Who the fuck would actually buy this now? At best you probably have another week or two of actually being able to join games.

 

[AJUMP23]

How this game isn't FTP already is mind blowing.

It will be.

 

[Saber]

Even if it’s got 100 times more concurrent users on PS5 than PC, that would still be abysmal numbers, especially spread across multiple playlists.

I’ve seen several #PS5Share tagged posts on social media complaining about 8+ minute wait times in the Rivalry playlist and that the only consistent matchmaking is in the Brawl playlist where the basic TDM and Kill Confirmed game types are.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a paid game where you need to have a paid subscription to even play it. I'm willing to guess its waaaay worse on the PS, too many barriers for the player.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

What will The Professor think of next

 

[Spyxos]

Well that was quick.

 

[dante_f]

The world saw the writing on the wall months ago. Baffling that Sony didn’t.

They couldn't, Amazon was gonna release an episode about concord, also the printing was probably already begin. Why did they release their beta so late

 

[Lupin3]

This thread is filled with tasteless freaks!

 

[CuckooBananaNuts]

This thread is filled with tasteless freaks!

 

[b0bbyJ03]

Would love to be a fly on the wall at Firewalk staff meetings this week. Gotta be full blown panic over there.

since they know they're going to lose their jobs, might as well go in with a hidden cam and become an internet hero

 

[Preseznik]

Imagine if they begin to refund everyone lol

Biggest testament of failure ever

I mean, what happens if the product becomes unusable due to it's online nature? So soon after launch?
Pretty sure in the EU at least, they'd be compelled to do refunds.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Sony is getting blasted on YT. I need heads (leadership) to roll, and i need to hear that Sony is shambles...

 

[FeralEcho]

Concord is a great place to meet Sony developers.

Just on weekends apparently

 

[CherryFalls]

 

[FeralEcho]

Where is men in boxes to save a MP game when you need them?

Crazy to think it lasted a week.

He's trying to keep the servers alive all by himself

 

[Frwrd]

 

[Bruno_Arrais85]

Can't wait for Concord 2: FairGames

 

[ViperZombie]

 

[missiles]

This is far more entertaining than any first party game Sony has released for years.

 

[Varteras]

 

[PonyStation4]

1. remove psn sign-in
2. fix steamos support
3. free to play

The game doesn't support Linux, likely because of its anti cheat. So there's no bug to fix for Steam OS support

 

[AltogetherAndrews]

I’m part of the problem. I genuinely enjoyed the beta so I was set on buying the damn game, but then I got stuck playing Titanfall 2 instead. And now it seems like I missed one hell of a small window lol.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Yes! Straight into my veins. Fuck these boring ass clone games.

How about a helldiver 2 update Sony. What the fuck? Seriously there's a couple hundred people playing concord. This is worse than anthem which I didn't think possible.

 

[AltogetherAndrews]

Knowing the rates of the studio that did that reveal trailer, I wonder if they even made that cost back. Yikes.

 

[Bojanglez]

How this game isn't FTP already is mind blowing.

I suspect first move will be too make it a PS+ free game, maybe in a few months, then sometime next year after the planned seasons finish they will pivot to a complete ftp model.

That's if they don't just kill it.

I didn't dislike it when I played the beta, I just don't have the time to justify paying for a game like this when I have a load of single player games in my backlog and there are perfectly competent ftp games I can dip in and out of for multiplayer.

 

[March Climber]

This is why I like selectable bots (like Perfect Dark), custom servers, and PvE modes in multiplayer games (Like Unreal Tournament's campaign).

That way a potentially dead game can at least still be worth something.

 

[Revolutionary]

It will be.

You really think that people will buy skins or characters for this game?

We've already seen the horrible character design, but this is a legendary skin for this game:


No one is going to plop down their hard earned cash for something this ugly in a F2P game.

 

[Plague Doctor]

On a meta level with the whole backlash of many games lately, there's this feeling in the air that we haven't even really seen the full swing from the mass consumer rejection yet. I honestly believe all trends point to things getting far more bumpy as fuck for the AAA industry being smack dab in the middle of a massive market correction from consumer rejection of key high profile titles. I have no idea what game in the future will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, but it will make Concord seem like nothing.

Now this doesn't mean all or even a majority of future AAA games will get the third degree, but there will be enough that will register with the execs.

Edit: I also believe one opportunistic western pub or dev will break ranks and be highly rewarded and eventually being seen as the model to follow. Coming across as "for the consumer/audience first/focusing on just making good games like the industry used to/etc" and people will flock and cheerlead them. Again, no clue who that company will end up being and this is all just speculation from my ass.

 

[mindfreak191]

These so called Concord players, are they with us in the room right now?

 

[simpatico]

How this game isn't FTP already is mind blowing.

All the characters are included. It takes a lot of development for F2P. They literally hire the same people who design slots in Vegas to get those neurons firing. Pretty hard to tack on if you care about doing a good job. Servers are expensive and right now everyone owns all the stuff by default. They'll be paying for a lot of bandwidth for people to just play it as a lolcow. Think of the trolling. Plus, you'd really burn your most loyal PS fans. Lord knows no one else bought that thing. Ironically turning it F2P would cost a lot of money. They might be done throwing money at Firewalk.

 

[CLW]

That plat is gonna be RARE

 

[Alebrije]

You really think that people will buy skins or characters for this game?

We've already seen the horrible character design, but this is a legendary skin for this game:


No one is going to plop down their hard earned cash for something this ugly in a F2P game.

Yu can cosplay it with just a piece of foam and some cords

 

[MISTER INVEIGLER]

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Any sane individual would pull the plug. This studio is just absolute mentalists.

 

[Katatonic]

I haven't had any issues getting into matches in a reasonable timeframe...yet.

 

[Ridicululzz]

I'd love to hear the conversations going on internally about this game right now. At the studio and higher up at Sony.

 

[skyfinch]

You can stay in and stream Borderlands probably by this weekend

You must be out of your damn mind!




I watched it in theatres on opening day.

 

[N30RYU]

Roadmap who?

It won't make it to Season 1

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

Tempted to buy the controller and keep it in box, so in 20 years I can sell it to some Playstation collector.

Just because it's rare doesn't mean it's valuable.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

C'mon Gaf. Surely we can chip in, have a few games, have a few laughs?

 

[HogIsland]

The game doesn't support Linux, likely because of its anti cheat. So there's no bug to fix for Steam OS support

Afaik the only blocker is PSN implementation on PC sucking. But that's just the immediate problem. We don't know if there are further blockers.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Yu can cosplay it with just a piece of foam and some cords

I’d love to see that Low Cost Cosplay guy take a swing at this.

 

[Lokaum D+]

How this game isn't FTP already is mind blowing.

This game should be paytoplay, they pay me to play this shit

 

[Mossybrew]

So many pvp games to choose from these days, even if this thing was free it would just attract the usual crowd of bored tourists who move on after a couple weeks for the next thing. Give us more co-op stuff like Helldivers, I think there's more space for that kind of experience in the multiplayer sphere right now.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Decades from now I'll tell my kids I was here when a PS AAA multiplayer game that was in development for 8 years spectacularly cratered on launch reaching double digit numbers on the Steam charts in less than 2 weeks.


For your consideration, PlayStation GAAS.

 

[AJUMP23]

You really think that people will buy skins or characters for this game?

We've already seen the horrible character design, but this is a legendary skin for this game:


No one is going to plop down their hard earned cash for something this ugly in a F2P game.

People date people that look like that so yes they will spend their cash.


Fools and thier money are soon departed.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

 

[Icymanipulator]

All 600 of them should start a discord together

 

[Moridianae]

It *might* get a barebones Season 1, similar to how Suicide Squad got something, but it's up in the air.

No way it gets a Season 2. It is currently at 167 players on Steam, a marked drop from even yesterday when it barely got above 200.

CoD Beta starts tomorrow and goes for a good while. It just doesn't have any hope.